4 weeks and counting!!!!!!

Sadie decided 4 wks ago that she was not going to wear pull-ups ever again.  She has done awesome in her "unnies" as she calls them.  :)  I'm so proud of her!!!!  She has had accidents here and there, but overall, has really done great.  It's wonderful to have 2 kiddos in underwear/panties.  It's also kind of hard....HA!  However, I'll take that over having to buy diapers (which we haven't had in this house in almost a year) and pull-ups.  She originally started potty training herself at 19 months and did really well, but wasn't quite ready to go without them yet.  As I think back, we haven't bought, but probably 4-5 packages of pull-ups in a whole year.  She was going poop in the potty, but wasn't quite ready to go pee pee in the potty every single time.  It was a crazy time and so different than Zachary and his potty training technique.  :)

However, they've gotten to the same destination in 2 different ways and ages.  Zachary decided he was done with diapers a few months after 3.

I believe in not pushing your kiddo till they are ready.  Talk about stress free; yep, it was for the most part.  When they were ready; then we did it.  I knew there would be backlash if I tried to force them.  I would do it the same all over again without any hesitation.


YOU ROCK, SADIE GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kitties........

........have been busy!!!

Last night they killed a frog and this is all that remains - the legs.

During the storm today; I went outside to get something and noticed they were "playing" and staring at something in the garage.  I went over to see what the little curious ones were doing.  Lo and behold, they had killed a snake.  It looks kind of big in the picture, but it was only about 6 inches or so long.

 



 

I am so proud of them because they're doing EXACTLY what we wanted; minus the frog.  Didn't even think about them killing frogs.  Well, at least they're beginning to kill snakes at only 3 months old.  Woo Hoo........go Jet (male) and Spot (female)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lefty???

I'm thinking we might just have a lefty in the family.  I am a lefty and sooo wanted at least one of my children to be a lefty like me.  Check out this picture!!!

 

For now, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and stay hopeful that he will stay this way.  :) 

Woo Hoo!!!!

Halloween Store

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!  Funniest story in a while at poor Sadie's expense.  :)

Zachary LOVED the jumping spider at the Spirit Halloween store last year.  He has been looking forward to seeing them all year and once he saw that the stores were coming up; he has been asking me to go.  So, after our dinner last night, I saw the SH store in McKinney.  I knew we had nothing pressing and just enjoying our sweet little family that night.  I motioned for Les to follow me into the parking lot.  You could tell on the look on his face; he was very confused as to what we were doing....HA!  I told him to get out and told Zachary and Sadie to get out also.  Zachary is full of questions because we're actually parked next to a sandwich place.  We started walking to the store and as we get closer and closer he can see the halloween stuff in the windows.  He was so excited!  We get inside and he's actively searching for the jumping spider.  Sadie is close behind him, but has NO IDEA what Zachary was looking for.  He found the first jumping spider and steps on the activate button on the ground.  Now, the kids are very close to the spider and all of a sudden, the spider turns on and jumps right into Sadie.  She was so surprised and immediately turned around and ran to me.  I was DYING laughing and trying to NOT pee in my pants......HAHAHA  I have to hand her over to Les b/c I'm literally rolling on the ground laughing.  I can't even catch my breath it was so funny.  Her little arms were right where the spiders legs were and so, when it popped up, the spider was right up in her face.  I know, it sounds mean to laugh, but I couldn't stop laughing.  I wish I would have had a video of the scene happen to rewatch it again.  I am laughing again as I type this out.  While we were walking around the store she would say," I no like that."  Then we would start laughing again.

Sweet Sadie, I'm sorry that this happened to you, but since it did, I'm glad that I got to see it!  :) 

We love you, Sadie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Facebook, Farewell

I have really been feeling like Satan is using FB against me to make feel hurt feelings, jealous, comparing, etc.  We had talked about this Wed morning at my Bible Study and pretty much hands down, my small group felt negatively towards it.  I don't know why, but maybe it's nature, but it effects us moms the most.  I think what's really the worst is moms comparing the kids to each other.  I try really hard not to do that, but of course, those lies are whispered and they're hard to ignore.  So, I have a blog and have for a LONG time!  I think, at least try, to put most of our accomplishments, vacations, etc on her.  I know I won't be judged, compared, etc.  Especially since, as of right now, I don't know many people that have this website......HA!  That could change of course as people ask for the web address.  It doesn't matter though, b/c if someone wants to know about us; then they'll come to me.  It won't be forced in their face on FB.

Rant is over...........Have a BLESSED day in the Lord.  < Jesus ><

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

– Psalm 51:10 (NIV)

Baking Night for Sadie & Mommy

Sadie and I enjoyed baking together several weeks ago.  I haven't blogged about it and decided to post some pictures from our fun night together.  Zachary spent the night with Mimi and Poppy, Sadie and I baked, and daddy was at work. 
Enjoy!

 

How can you not resist this brownie smile?!?!  She's definitely kissable.  :)

 

 

Our completed cupcakes.  She really wanted purple, so that's what we did!!

 

 

Here were out completed brownies - these were made especially for daddy.

 

 

Here is Sadie enjoying her final product - cupcake!

 

 

Here is a picture of Sadie and I in our Mexican Aprons.  Carlos, your mom will be so proud!

 

 

Here she is smiling all big - she loved every minute of it.  I asked if we should call our neighbors John & Sharon and she said," yes."  So, they came over for cupcakes when we were finished.

 

 

Here she is stirring our cupcake mix.

 

 

More stirring.....

 

 

Into the oven they go....

 

 

Yay........they're done!

 

 

Stirring the brownies......she was helping me crack the eggs.  She really liked the breaking of the eggs.  We still have a ways to go before she can crack the eggs herself, but she had fun.  That's what counts!

 

Of course, you have to lick the whisk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Oh yeah, she was loving this part the best........HAHAHAHAHA

Our Big Boy - Pre-K

Today was Zachary's official 1st day of pre-k......YAY!

We worked for a good hour before we were done and he did great.  We started off with our Bible devotion from a new devotional that we gave to Zachary last night.  It is Sarah Young's Jesus Calling for Kids - it covers both the old and new testament stories and it's pretty cool; especially the pictures.  Zachary enjoyed the devotional!

Off we went for his schoolwork; which included tracing, writing, sorting m&m's and counting them (and of course eating a few along the way too!), an about me page that I wrote up (picture will be at the bottom), working on the letter of the week - A and then a craft, cutting, coloring, working on temperature, time, etc.  It all flowed so smoothly and tomorrow, will be Les' day since he's off and I'll be at work.  Then I'll do Wed, and my mom will be Thurs while I'm at work again.  We're going to leave Friday's for "free" days to do whatever we want: field trip, playgroup, etc.  So, it'll be fun!!!

We'll be doing our reading of books probably around bedtime or maybe in the afternoon after naps; this will be a negotiable thing as to what time it's done in.  They kids LOVE to be read to, so it won't be hard to incooperate it into our life b/c it's already there!!  :)

I'll try to keep my blog updated on Zachary's progress!  Next we're going to learn the letter Z.  He can already recognize it, but we'll work on it and different words that start with "Z".  One never knows, we might end up at the zoo next week.....HA!  Probably not, unless there is a HUGE change in our weather......SOON!  I figure that we'll cover the letter from the previous week quickly on Monday to make sure that he can still recognize it.  He can point out quite a few letters, but I know he doesn't know all of them yet.  This will be our goal this semester; then probably start trying to learn to read in the Spring semester.  I don't want to do that until I know he knows all of them.

Anyways, I'm off for now, going to take a nap.  Miss Sadie girl woke me up again at 1:55 AM to go potty and try to sleep with us.  HA!  So, I'm tired and this has happened 2 nights in a row now.  Not used to be woken up at night anymore.  LOL